Microsoft Planner - Feedback Forum

Welcome to Planner’s Feedback Forum!

We love your feedback and look forward to hearing from you. Our feedback forum is a great place to post your ideas and vote on your favorites. We can’t promise we’ll build everything, but the product group will review all requests.

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We’ve started development on the first item:
1. Support viewing Planner Tasks on an Outlook Calendar
We will add the ability to turn on an iCalendar feed (.ics feed) for the “My Tasks” view and for each Plan. You can subscribe to this feed in Outlook to see Planner tasks in context with your other events.

We expect to start work on the second item soon:
2. Create a Calendar/Schedule visualization
We’ll create a new view that allows you to easily view and edit tasks in the context of a calendar.

Thank you for all the feedback. We have started development on a Due Date notifications feature. This feature will send notifications for tasks at various intervals before they are due, and also for tasks that have recently become past due.

Rather than having to create every plan from scratch it would be good if the system allowed for the creation of Templates with pre-existing tasks (like in Word/Excel). This would allow a new plan and its tasks to be created from a template saving a lot of time.

OK, so working out loud is good.... to a limit. Please enable settings that reduce the very high spam content currently coming from planner. Not everyone in the group wants to know ever movement on every task. Enable users to subscribe to various types of events on tasks. Hopefully at some time there will be some consistent settings like priority etc, that can be used as user selectable alert filtering.

Emails consume too much time and energy. As an email user I want to only view an email once and should be able to reply/forward to a person or Outlook Group/SharePoint Site, schedule a Planner task, and/or archive the email for future reference.

Need the ability to copy a task, including the checklists and other items within the task. This would allow one to set up a template task, then create many tasks using that template task. This is a different request than the many copy suggestions that have been made already.